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<p>In “Summer’s End,” the American country-folk/Americana singer-songwriter <a href="https://songoftheday.ca/2020/04/08/spanish-pipedream/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">John Prine</a> (1946-2020) sings about the passage of time, and how it often goes far more quickly than we’d choose.</p><p>“Summer’s end’s around the bend just flying</p><p>The swimming suits are on the line just drying</p><p>I’ll meet you there per our conversation</p><p>I hope I didn’t ruin your whole vacation</p><p>Well you never know how far from home you’re feeling</p><p>Until you watch the shadows cross the ceiling</p><p>Well I don’t know but I can see it snowing</p><p>In your car the windows are wide open</p><p>Come on home</p><p>Come on home</p><p>No you don’t have to be alone</p><p>Just come on home</p><p>Valentines break hearts and minds at random</p><p>That ol’ Easter egg ain’t got a leg to stand on</p><p>Well I can see that you can’t win for trying</p><p>And New Year’s Eve is bound to leave you crying</p><p>Come on home</p><p>Come on home</p><p>No you don’t have to be alone</p><p>Just come on home</p><p>The moon and stars hang out in bars just talking</p><p>I still love that picture of us walking</p><p>Just like that ol’ house we thought was haunted</p><p>Summer’s end came faster than we wanted</p><p>Come on home</p><p>Come on home</p><p>No you don’t have to be alone</p><p>Come on home</p><p>Come on home</p><p>No you don’t have to be alone</p><p>Just come on home”</p><p>“Summer’s End,” by John Prine and Pat McLaughlin</p><p>Lyrics retrieved from <a href="https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/johnprine/summersend.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>AZLyrics</em></a>.</p><p>The official video, which opens with Prine sitting alone at one of two metal chairs, closes and is interspersed with shots of him singing and playing, centres on a rural family; an older man and presumably his daughter and granddaughter. At the beginning, we see a graveyard and quickly realize the daughter has died. Later, a TV screen flashes a message that opioid deaths have skyrocketed, and we’re led to believe that the daughter had perhaps succumbed to an addiction. In addition to grieving his daughter, the man is now responsible for raising his granddaughter; he does so with patience, love and devotion, teaching her practical life lessons for when he, too, is gone, and watching in awe how she is in the world.</p><p>Prine’s soft guitar picking and gentle singing poignantly convey the story, accompanied by subtle instrumentation, and backing vocals by <a href="https://songoftheday.ca/2024/03/11/the-story/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Brandi Carlile</a> (b. 1981). The video ends with a young guitarist sitting in the chair beside Prine. I believe it is Tommy (b. 1995), Prine’s youngest son. The younger Prine’s appearance, for me, is a nod to the video’s depiction of life and time passing, with it coming just two years before John Prine died of complications from Covid-19.</p><p>The song and video depict meaningful, heartwarming and heart-rending life lessons shared among generations about savouring every moment, not taking any for granted and seeking help from those you can count on when you are low. Life worthy of gratitude, on this Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada.</p><p>“Summer’s End” comes from Prine’s 18th and final album, <em>The Tree of Forgiveness</em> (2018).</p><p>Now you know a little about why this is my <em>Song of the Day for Today</em>. I’m glad you stopped by.</p><p>Here’s the official video on <em>YouTube</em>‘s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSMDqt4WdrxNwlN-erGj5-w" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">John Prine</a> channel; it’s posted as a fundraiser by the <a href="https://www.thehellointherefoundation.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hello in There Foundation</a>, set up by Prine’s family after his death, and <em>“… dedicated to caring for those who are marginalized, discriminated against or, for any </em></p><p><em>reason, are otherwise forgotten.”</em></p><p><br></p><p><img 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